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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1942
When Stanford defeated Oregon State last night, 40 to 35, it insured the N.C.A.A. Western Division playoffs of three high-scoring teams. Now if Kansas can come through tonight it will mean four teams that lay the greatest stress on offense will clash with each other.
The tournament this year stacks up as being the best of its kind ever staged anywhere. The cream of the crop has been selected and it will be a wild-and-wooly mess to see which team has the stamina and ability to come through undefeated.
FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT STANFORD INDIANS
Now that Stanford has entered the tournament it might be well to dispense a few facts on the Indians. They won the Southern division championship of the Pacific coast conference by taking 10 out of 12 games. In nonconference games they won 12 out of 13 and then took two out of three playoff games from Oregon State to give them a season record of 24 wins out of 28 games.
Their offensive average over the entire season is 42.25 points a game and they have held their opponents to an average of 34.4 points a game. Their 12-game conference offensive average is 43.3 points a game and their defensive mark is 39 points.
Stanford has scored over 45 points a game in 10 contests and their opponents have done this only three times. High score of the year for the Red and White Cardinals occurred in the Ohio State game when Stanford won 60 to 45. The 45 points of the Buckeyes was also high for an opponent until the next to last game of the regular season when the California Bruins tallied 49 markers.
Sure-fire proof that the Indians were the class of the conference was given today when tho酞哄 all-Southern Division basketball team chosen by the coaches of the four schools was released. Don Burness, forward, and Bill Cowden, guard, co-captains of the Indians and the only letterman that Coach Everett Dean had on his squad at the start of the season, repeated on the all-star team from their selections last year.
The other three men. Jim Pollard, Howie Dallmar, and Ed Voss, were the first three men to make the second team. This gives Stanford five of the best eight men in the conference. Other members of the first team are Bob Ormsby, Southern California forward and now a member of the 20th Century Fox team of Hollywood in the A.A.U. meet at Denver this week; Roy Tamm, California center and now playing with the Golden State crew of Oakland along with Tee Connelly, former Oklahoma flash and All-American with the Denver Legion two years ago; and Ernie Handelsman, U.C.L.A. forward and leading scorer in the conference with 134 points in 12 games.
The Stanford club is extremely potent on rebounds where their height is used to the greatest extent. The team is not too fast but does feature the fast break on offense. A man-to-man defense is utilized by the Indians but Dean's system is very elastic and can be changed suddenly to meet the occasion.
One respect of this year's Cardinal team which is truly amazing is the unlimited height which the squad possesses. The shortest man on the 11-man squad is Fred Linari at five feet nine inches. The next shortest is Bill Hooper a six feet. Then comes Leo McCaffrey at six feet two inches and the other eight players are six feet three inches or better. The 11 men on the squad average six feet three inches which makes them rival the West Texas State Teachers outfit in height.
Some personal notes on the starting players are as follows.
Co-Captain Don Burness—six feet three inches, 187 pounds, 22 years, senior. Regular center last year. Playing forward for the first time, al- (continued to page five)
Scrimmage Here Soon
Spring football will get into full swing during the next few days and when it does the squad members will be fighting tooth and toenail to secure a regular berth on the Kansas eleven for next fall.
Gridsters Look Good In Practice
Spectators who have attended some of the practice sessions this spring say that the present squad is made up of the best material of any K.U. squad in the last few years. They, the followers of the team, say that last fall's squad members look better than they did last season. A good crop of newcomers is providing some size in the line, and some fast backs have been obtained from the freshman squad.
Davis Likes Gene Roberts
Prof. W. W. Davis, faculty member and member of the Big Six Athletic board, says that Gene Roberts is one of the fastest backs he has seen on a Kansas squad in the last 10 years. And he also says that if opposing teams ever hope to stop Roberts they had better nail him before he gets into the secondary. And as any one who has watched Roberts play knows, he gets into the secondary in a hurry.
Squad Learning Plays
The coaches did not plan any rough play for the first week of practice, but Thursday the men got a little over-anxious for some action. Once in a while, when a play was being run in dummy scrimmage, a member of the defensive team would slap a tackle on the ball carrier. Regular scrimmage will start this week and from that time on regular games will be played each Friday.
Wayne Replogle, freshman coach,
is pleased with the men because of
the way they are learning the plays
given them by Coach Henry. He
thinks that the plays are being run
with better timing now than all last
season.
Stress has been laid on fundamentals and timing and only a few plays have been learned so far, but these plays are being learned thoroughly. Coach Henry's system of plays is
based largely on speed, timing, and deception. This type of a system is almost necessary when a team is light and its rivals have advantage in weight. But such a system is hard to work against a powerful team on a muddy field. The majority of Kansas games were played in the mud last season. Naturally K.U. coaches are praying for some dry turf in which cleats will not slip next season.
12 Men Lost Already
Henry has been working some plays from the "T" formation this spring. They look good. Whether he plans to use that system next season is a good question and remains to be seen.
Coach Henry will have to find men to replace the seniors. Ralph Miller, one of the best passers in the nation last fall; Bob Uhlrich, all-big Six end; Bob Fluker and Jay Kern,
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guards; Steve Meade, tackle; Ralph Schaake, end; Marvin Vandaveer and Denzel Gibbens, halfbacks; and Monte Merkle, tackle, all brought their careers to an end last fall.
Then with the outbreak of the war, several more men from the squad dropped from school. Ray Niblo, back; Bob Hagen, end; and Don Ettinger, fullback, make up this group at present.
Several Freshmen Shine
But the coaches seem confident that the University is going to have a team to be proud of next year. From the freshman team, Bill Brill and Otto Schnellbacher, ends; Dick Channell, tackle; Grier Zimmerman and John Herron, guards; Junius Penny, center and backs, Hoyt Baker, Kenny Thompson, Gene Roberts, and Bill Palmer, all promise to make good men to fill the shoes of those who are gone. These men from the yearling squad plan to give
sophomores and juniors of the squad a lot of worry in their efforts to make the team.
Members of the squad have straightened out their class schedules and their R.O.T.C. drill during the last week and have been able to attend practice regularly.
We'll
WHIP
The Cowboys
TONIGHT
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